Page That Counts :: Spring 1998

posted Mar 31, 1998

Percentage of US investors who say they always or frequently check on businesspractices, values, and ethics before investing: 39% Percentage of US consumers who said they would be much or somewhat morelikely to buy from a socially responsible company: 88%

Percentage of Star Trek television series fans who met the clinical definition of addicts according to a London study: 10%

Number of people worldwide who are forced to use dirty water: 1.2 billion Number of deaths in the world per day from contaminated water: 15,000 Percentage of bottled water purchased in the US that is contaminated with bacteria: 33%

Number of calories in one ounce of candy valentine hearts: 110 Number of calories you burn while kissing for 10 minutes: 10

Amount the Zeneca pharmaceutical company earns per year marketing the cancer therapy drug tamoxifen sulfate: $470 million Amount Zeneca earns per year from sales of the herbicide acetochlor, which the EPA has termed a "probable carcinogen": $300 million

Amount weapons manufacturer Royal Ordinance was paid to clear land mines -including its own L-9 bar mines - in Kuwait after the Gulf War: $90 million

Number of ballots validated for gods and goddesses to vote on water usage in Andhra Pradesh, India: 10,000

Amount the US spends on weight loss programs each year: $35 billion Amount that would be needed to eliminate starvation and malnutrition in the world: $19.25 billion

Months after Paula Jones filed suit against President Clinton that the IRS decided to audit her: 40

Number of children who died of polio during the height of the US polio epidemic in 1952: 1,922 Number of US children who died from violence in 1992: 3,900

Amount of time the average American spends going through junk mail in her lifetime: 8 months

Approximate number of times per year that hackers infiltrate the Pentagon's computer system: 160,000 Percentage of hackers who succeed on the first try: 65%